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Daemon
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bonnet

(noun) Protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine.

Synonyms: cowl, hood

Usage: The mechanic lifted the car's bonnet to inspect its transmission.
twain
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Christine
Posted: Thursday, July 09, 2009 10:31:48 AM

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I always thought bonnet was a hat, but the cartoon couldn't be better.

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early_apex
Posted: Thursday, July 09, 2009 10:36:17 AM

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twain wrote:


It must be a Porsche, and they are looking in the boot! But that would not explain the starting problems.

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fred
Posted: Thursday, July 09, 2009 10:37:35 AM

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Bonnet is British. In the U.S. it's a Hood unless you own an MG, Jag, Triumph, Austin Healy, or British Leyland Mini.



"Supposin' I was to go to work and learn how to... to read writin'. Well, how'd I know that the feller that... that wrote the writin' was a writin' the writin' right? See it could be that he wrote the writin' all wrong. Here I'd be just a readin' wrong writin', don't ya see? You probably been doin' it your whole life, just a readin' wrong writin' and not even knowin‘ it." Festus
early_apex
Posted: Thursday, July 09, 2009 11:49:34 AM

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fred wrote:
Bonnet is British. In the U.S. it's a Hood unless you own an MG, Jag, Triumph, Austin Healy, or British Leyland Mini.



Also, in the US, a boot is footwear.

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Posted: Sunday, July 12, 2009 5:52:50 AM

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Actually, the lexicon "bonnet" evoked a poke bonnet and sun bonnet worn probably by women in the medieval western world thereafter the voguish dissemination rather than one part of a car called "a hood" in America because I had watched it in groovy movies, regardless of which I had not seen any genuine ones before. Do they have strings to tie up under a chin? Do they have extensively broad brims to shelter our faces from the sun light?

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